Friday, July 3, 2015

Means Testing?

So Chris Christie is on the campaign trail now.
I like his raw honesty and I think he would make
a successful president. I would really like to see him
slim down though.

He is talking about Social Security with honesty.While
Bernie Sanders is talking about expanding it, of course
which is attractive to liberals,Christie is talking about
trying to save it,
which people don't want to hear but need to.
One idea he said was to limit the amount of subsidies
toward medicare and no SS payments to people
who retire with $200,000 or more yearly income.
Thoughts?

82 comments:

I like Christie, but he is a bot abrasive, in and of itself not always a bad thing if speaking the truth. But if you check into Christie's background he has told a few less than honest stories. But so hasn't the Hillary.

Rational Nation USA, the only reason I don't put you and Ducky on my ignore list is because your ignorance is not only entertaining, but it reassures me that I'm on the correct side of issues. I'd only be worried if you and I agreed on anything.

What the hell is the matter with this asshole (O)CT(O)PUS with his or her personal attacks, name calling, et. etc. and etc.!Donald Trump is standing his ground and I really like that from him. As long as he sticks to his guns, he will bring enthusiasm, and hope back to America. Most people agree with everything Trumpsaid, the problem is that the truth often hurts!

....poor RN,a typical leftwingnut who detests anyone who is successful...the American dream tooted the horn and waved at him as it went by and left him standing with his thumb up his ass......The Donald not only has money but he has F**K YOU money which enables him to say anything he damn well pleases and it matters not to him what a low renter like RN thinks or says.

The lefties bitch and moan about what Trump says and how he says it but cant argue the fact that he has been absolutely truthful.

I guess that Donald Trump was right after all. The San Francisco Police said that on Thursday they arrested Francisco Sanchez a illegal Mexican aliens in the shooting of a beautiful 32 year old woman and shot her...and then threw the pistol off the pier and ran away. She fell pleading: "Help me dad, please help me".

This piece of trash who was already deported to Mexico Several Times walked up to this beautiful 32 year old woman and shot her...The Police said they arrested Francisco Sanchez for the shooting an hour after it occurred.

On Friday, ICE revealed their records indicate the individual has been previously deported five times, most recently in 2009, and is from Mexico. His criminal history includes seven prior felony convictions, four involving narcotics charges.. So I guess that The Donald was right after all, that ought to give all the liberals a tingle up and down their legs....Sickening story, YES, but liberals want illegals here, so what are you gonna do ? Trump gets MY vote.

Trump was right...again.....shows what a Wharton advanced degree can do....the left hates him because he wasn't a community organizer.....he actually accomplished something and created jobs along the way....Trump a product of hard work,smarts and the balls not to take a bunch of shit off anyone.

The left just hates good old American success.....unless the success was foisted upon you by the government.

-I believe people who paid into SS should get the benefits regardless of their current economic status.-I abhor government trying to/have already re-frame SS as an Entitlement. BS. I've been paying into this system since I'm 15. I want my benefit regardless of where I'm at.-This was sold to the public as a retirement pension program where the $ would be maintained in Their name in Individual accounts.-lbj stole a very healthy SS fund and created the welfare state with it. The Great Society that plagues us today. The welfare state and SS are big problems no?-democrats have opened up the SS funds to people who have never paid a dime into it including illegal aliens. BS.-Now we have politicians on both sides trying to frame the SS problem as Our problem. Somehow we screwed up or we are too greedy. No, government pissed the money away now they are trying to tell us we are the problem. I'll never accept that.

How is the social security program constantly being brought up as bankrupt and there has never been a single word about the welfare system being in trouble. You know, the system that pays whores to pop kids out into zero opportunity, drug and crime infested environments that cost us even more money through the police, legal, court and prison system. Not to mention all the dead people killed for nothing by the these animals created to be nothing more than democrat voters. ? You know people like RN, Duck, JJ, and libgirl(lol). And LBJ knew this up front. This is no unintended consequences thing.

Sorry Lisa, I don't support Christie at all. I think he's crooked. He is for obamacare. I haven't heard anything Conservative from him. I haven't seen anything from him that would amount to an accomplishment for New Jersey, let alone the after effects of Sandy. I see him as a lib. I wouldn't even grace him with the RINO moniker.

I hope you are having a great Independence weekend.

Finally, fwiw, I'd like you to entertain the idea of not allowing such human garbage such as RN on your blog. I know this is potentially way out of bounds for me to suggest and whatever you go with is fine with me in the end and I'll never bring it up again, (It is your blog) but I think it detracts from your fine blog and excellent points that you make to subject your readers to such human garbage. I'd say your readers are smart enough to know what kind of garbage is out there without having it on display in every one of your posts.

I understand what you are saying kid. I am on the fence about it even though it was not our fault. I am just concerned about the onslaught of baby boomers. SS was started with good intentions and yes I prefer to see welfare cuts as well. Look at Obamcare only 10 years of funding and no plan on how to pay for it after that. I am pretty sure we are going to be screwed one way or another

Kid is absolutely fuc*ing right. SS is not an entitlement. I, like Kid and millions of others have been paying into SS since I was 16 (in my case 44 years. I'll be damned if that makes it an entitlement. I want my goddamn money back. Either now (every dollar I pain in in full) or monthly when I retire for the rest is my goddamn life.

Christie is wrong on this. If those who paid in, regardless of means, don't get their money it is goddamn theft.

Lisa, I don't have a problem replacing SS with something that works, but I have my doubts.

The reality is that some percentage of the population will not plan for their future if left to their own devices, and some forced program is needed to make sure we don't have thousands of people on the streets begging for food.

Lisa, don't accept the baby boomer excuse from the government. They saw this coming decades ago. If you focus on financial websites and stock market data releases as I do, it is pretty obvious that the government position is BS.

BTW - Economic recovery? The ONLY thing you need to know is what the Federal Reserve interest rate is. Currently, it is Zero. The Fed Funds rate (the rate at which banks can borrow short term) is a tool that the federal reserve uses to control inflation.

If the economy is getting hot (inflation) the fed raises rates to cool it off. If the economy is hurting, the fed lowers the rate to spur growth and inflation.

The current rate is Zero. It's been zero for a few years now. All you need to know. There is No economic recovery,

Lisa, you ca bet we're going to be screwed. England's NHS -National Health Service Sucks. I read where if you need Hospital service, you're waiting 18 months. They have a goal of making that 18 weeks. WTF? You need hospital and you need to wait 18 weeks (their goal!) America's single payer system will be worse. It's coming. 10 - 15 years maybe but we are On The Path. No doubt the libtards 10 15 yrs from now will say Wha Happen and will blame it on the repubs (they already have!)

Who the fuck are you too call a symbol of a different culture's heritage bigotry? I'm sure you'd be drama queening it up if us REAL Americans called your so-called "pride" flag an abomination, unnatural and deviancy.

I’m sorry to have to say it, but we must say it like it is...this is a nation in who is in deep trouble my friends, we have these progressives who are American haters, we have a Supreme Court who are lefties appointed by lefties and doing the dirty work of lefties.

We have enemies all over the world, many of them are former allies yet our President hasn’t got the guts or the balls to do anything other than go golfing with his Celebrity friends and take vacations with his Mooching First Lady while we continue to see the destruction, and the bankruptcy of this once great nation.We see Illegal aliens coming to America in droves every day using the system, to obtain Food Stamps, Jobs, and other things and sending the money they make back to Mexico.And yet we laugh when Donald Trump tells it like it is. Our nation is still being invaded on a daily basis not only by enemies, but by illegal immigrants who are dead-set on bringing about our demise and the death of American dream. The Second Amendment is under constant attack, the First Amendment is threatened regularly by a despicable regime and by an leftist led Supreme Court.

Yes, I know, I hear it every day, “Trump is a Clown,” “He is a buffoon.” “He was divorced twice.” “He has been bankrupt.” Yes, I know it, and yes it’s all true. And it’s also true that Ronald Reagan was a B-movie Actor and he played second fiddle to a chimp.But damn it hey both were as successful as hell and they both always told it like it was

Today on the Birthday of our nation we have been warned and told by our Police Forces all over this land to be extra cautious and prepare for terrorist attacks on this 4th of July, possibly even an attack to mirror the horror of September the 11th. But however we must stand tall and continue to say Happy Birthday and may God Bless America!

The Obama administration just announced that an envoy will be sent to Cuba this week to normalize America's relationship with the communist, tyrannical Castro regime.

Aw, isn't that nice? And, why would we do that?

Because the communist, tyrannical Obama regime is best buds with Castro! I mean, Beyoncé had an absolute ball when she was there. That place is just so misunderstood.

If we were just more understanding, everything would all work out. You know, like with Islamic terrorists. If we just let them know that we understand them, they will stop slicing off heads, right?

Even my most liberal friends throw up their hands in complete disgust at the refusal of the Obama administration to call Islamic terrorists "Islamic."

And, just in case you had the slightest inkling that Obama has any interest in you or your well-being, he is trying to make absolutely sure that you are clear:

He doesn't.

He is actually going to propose even more tax hikes on the rich. Here is the problem with that: rich people move their money to protect it from punitive taxes. So, the people who actually get stuck paying more taxes are you and me, the people in the middle who don't have offshore accounts or those fancy Swiss banks with only the cool numbers. So, really, to a liberal administration "taxing the rich" translates to "taxing anyone with the audacity to have a job."

Finally, are you enjoying all of that extra cash in your pocket from lower gas prices? Well, put down your mocha, Obama is already trying to figure out how to tax that, too.

Honestly, I can't stand it anymore.

Seriously, can you?And the next person running for President should have to prove to Americans that they are legals, no previous police records, and proof that they did not hangaround and bedded with the likes of whores, gays, and the terrorists of the World. Itshould be allowed that their relatives are connected in anyway to anything illegal as tobother the Freedoms and Rights of Americans! Bad publicity on the part of the Leadership of America should not be tolerated.

Oh those Racist lies and the lying Racists that tell themWhat Eric Holder did not tell the American People in his speech outlining the DOJ’S investigation of the City of Ferguson Police Department was the City of Fergusons racial composition.The City of Ferguson’s population; out of a total population of approximately 21,203 is 14,297 are Black, and 6,206 are White. This data is provided by the most current census.. Don’t believe me, well go a head and check it for yourself, the information is available from online sources.Now mind you, I am not a rocket scientists, you can ask any of those Progressive Bleeding Hearts, I’m sure that they will tell you so. But where you a race of people in which the demographics indicate that the Black population is approximately 67%, who is more likely to be stopped by the Police, Black citizens, who total 67% of the total population or White drivers who makes up 33% of the population?Also shown in the racial composition is a category which indicates two or more races 186; Hispanic or Latino 130 and Asian population 52.Total Ferguson population: 21,203.African-Americans: 14,297-67% White Americans: 6,206 -33%

What Eric Holder will tell you is how sorry the police department is. How out of control all the officers are. How they do nothing but TARGET blacks, and how the police department uses their K9’s strictly 100% of the time on Blacks.Understand this; I was a Police Officer for 20 plus years. I do not condone any police officer abusing his authority, abusing a citizen he has sworn to protect. I do not condone any police officer who has used his position for his/her benefit. Those types of officers should be aggressively prosecuted and if convicted given the maximum punishment prescribed by law.That said, I do not condone the Chief Law Enforcement Officer using his position as a platform to incite racial unrest; which is exactly what Eric Holder and his partner in crime Hussein Obama have done.For the sake of argument let’s compare the demographics of a border town to compare what a Police Officer may encounter on any given traffic stop on any given day.Let’s look at Harlingen, Texas just 15 miles as a crow flies from the Mexican Border. Harlingen has a population of approximately 65,665 according to the information provided by the census bureau.Again I will pose this question. Who is a police officer more likely to stop in Harlingen, Texas on any given day?I wonder. Could it be a Hispanic or White? If you listened to Holder he did nothing but disparage the Ferguson Police department. All Holder did was incite more racial unrest. Why; because, in my opinion, he dislikes White Americans. You hear it in the tone of his speeches.The Proof is in the pudding when he refused to prosecute members of the New Black Panthers for intimidating White Americans. In this county Al Capone could be president if he were a Black and a Liberal.. I want to make this clear; I supported Darren Wilson once the real facts of the case were being released. The lies by people were broadcast as fact by most all of main stream media; some went as far as calling Wilson a murderer before any facts were known.

The biggest lie of all, that Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back as he was running away yelling don’t shoot while his arms were allegedly raised over his head as if he was surrendering.It was the most disgusting and despicable mob scene I have ever witnessed with the continued looting and the total destruction of businesses.Eric Holder makes a visit to the Black community involving the federal government in state matters and promising a complete and full investigation of Officer Darren Wilson and of the Ferguson Police Department. Did he go visit the White community to assure them as well that everything will be fine. Not to my knowledge. That showed bias from the get go.Did Holder make an attempt to visit Wilson to tell him he would be treated fairly and without prejudice? Not to my knowledge.So there you have it in a nutshell. Hussein Obama directed Eric Holder to use the full weight of the DOJ to conduct a major investigation, to be fair and impartial. Did he? No, I think not, not at all.Wilson as you know was no-billed by the grand jury sparking another rounds of violence, looting and arson. With low life thugs attempting to “BURN DOWN FERGUSON ONCE AGAIN.”, with damage ranging in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Making matters worse Obama released his attack dog AL Sharpton to basically rally the troops and create more hate and more destructive behavior. Sharpton succeeded. Rioting continued and Ferguson left burning as a result.But things are a changing, just incase you’ve been sleeping for the past week, ,

Donald Trump has entered the GOP presidential race. And he’s no joke, no matter what the Progressive’s and the Libs will tell you. In the latest poll he’s in second place in New Hampshire.The Donald dosn’t have to answer to anyone. He doesn’t care about political correctness. He doesn’t answer to anyone: not donors, not handlers, not consultants, not pollsters and — God bless him and especially not the media. The Donald calls it as he sees it. Trump is his own man. Trump says whatever he wants because he is worth $8 or 9 billion.The Donald doesn’t need any donations. He doesn’t need the support of fat-cat donors or multinational corporations like the other GOP candidates. He doesn’t need scandalous donations (aka bribes) from foreign governments like Hillary Clinton. Hillary is greedy. We know she thinks of herself as broke. Her hubby Bill says he’s still worried about “paying the bills.” Desperate people do desperate things. But Trump has $9 billion dollars. He never has to do desperate things. He has 9 billion reasons to say whatever he wants — and let the chips fall where they may... Trump will tell you about the damage Barack Obama has done to our economy with his socialist policies. It’s time for a politician to ask what socialism did for Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or France, or miserable Cuba, or Venezuela with food and toilet paper shortages? And what have more than 50 straight years of Democratic leadership done for bankrupt, crime-ridden hellholes like Detroit, Chicago or Baltimore?We already know The Donald will dare to tell the raw truth about the border and illegal immigration. He did it in his presidential announcement speech. He said what no other Republican has the chutzpah to say: The border is wide open; and the illegals flowing across will destroy middle-class jobs and drown our nation under a tsunami of welfare, food stamps, free healthcare and the costs for cops, courts and prison. He actually said many of these illegals are not nice people; they are criminals being dumped on us by their own governments. We’re so dumb we accept them. Trump finally admitted the worst-kept secret in American politics: Illegal immigration is bad for the economy and the country.So it will have to be a wait to see if he gets the nomination. If he doesn't we know it is because of our corrupt system. I don't always like Trump, but then again not everyone always like me either. But maybe it’s because we tell the truth even if it hurts. I honestly feel that Trump could put our Country back where it should be and the ONLY one that can. Even if we only have him for one term it would be a milestone corner for our Country. I don't know about you but I am sick of lies upon lies. Or maybe people will be stupid and vote for Hillary!The primary debates will tell us more, much more. This is just putting your foot in the water, which is why we have heard little from Hillary. I hope we can see a Trump/Hillary debate, he’s wipe the floor with her. She is smart no doubt about that, too bad she cannot be trusted nor does she love the USA. She only loves only herself. WE know the Donald thinks highly of himself but he is smart enough to know he cannot run this country alone. BUT, he Kisses nobody’s Ass, I feel that I can trust himGame Over, Donald Trump by a mile.

The left lies all the time. It's a learned tactic .They lied about Ferguson,Freddy Gray,Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner. They act like they were just randomly targeted. Then the democrats pretend to be the "champions" of these communites and we all see how well that has been working out

Are you AS-Hole Progressives okay with lies and stealing as long as its Hillary or some other idiot fanatical twit in a Pig in a Pant Suit who is a thief a lyer, and a cheating crook and acts more like a Thief than a president. She wouldn't know truth if it smacked her in the face, she couldn't even tell the truth about her Husbands affair(s).

You're so f*cking void of cognitive function you could almost pass for a salamander.

Goddamn republicans have been lying to the American people every since Joseph McCarthy and the goddamn democrats have been lying to the American people since FDR, As liars go there ain't a piss hole in the snow difference between the two.

Trump is my man, he says it like it is, he is a no-nonsense man, not like we’ve become used to and not like the Pig in the Pant Suit either. there may be a few bumps in the road even with him at the helm, but, congress will look pathetic in comparison, I agree he's not the most charisiamatic candate, but ,everyone will know where they stand, not like the lyer, thief and cheat who will be running against him, Most of Congress, might as well pack their bags. It is past due to clean house. The only time working people hear anything about what a politician is going to do for them is election time. Then nothing else till next election. We need someone that will haul out the trash and replace them with doer's that get jobs done, bring our jobs back, real American made jobs, big corporations are nothing more than gready thieves, if they want to outsource the jobs that American workers made them what they are today, OK, but make them pay a 35% tax to bring the goods back to America. How many times do you try to put on new clothes and you know they should fit. They don't anymore because some Chinese slave laborer, made it and their sizes are not the same. How about new Washer and Dryers Warranty?????? Yea,Right, Disposable, take them to the overflowing Landfill. This country has got to get real. At the same time when trade was negotigated with this country the President's were being treasonist toward our own country, BOYCOTT ANY GOODS COMING FROM CHINA PUT THEM OUT OF BUISNESS. We don't need their junk. You say you can't aford to buy american, well thats when all Americans have to stand up to the plate, Unions, if you want to keep jobs and make things work in this country for all of us, Cuts, Cut's, get things straightened out where we are a world power again, then get the money you are owed again.I also want to add that the majority of Americans believe the Confederate flag, which has come under new fire following the racially charged tragedy in Charleston earlier this month, is a symbol of heritage and not one of hate like the Progressive idiots say!.As to the Confederate battleflag, this is an invention of the DEMOCRATS. The Democrats founded the K K K. Robert Byrd, George Wallace, LBJ and Woodrow Wilson are just a few of the numerous Demcorats that liked THEIR racist symbol. If the Democrats finally want to retire their RACIST symbol and move away from their RACISM, I am OK with it. '57 states' Obama is a lazy, lying, arrogant corrupt imbecile. He personifies the democrat party today. The blacks in America deserve Obama's plantation polices. How has that worked out for you?

@TC -- You say you can't aford to buy american, well thats when all Americans have to stand up to the plate, Unions, if you want to keep jobs and make things work in this country for all of us, Cuts, Cut's, get things straightened out where we are a world power again, then get the money you are owed again.------

Another example of baldy's complete lack of knowledge RR......you ask him to name just one lie from Joe McCarthy and all he can say is "red scare." He needs to go back to Huff Post,Salon or Media Matters to get some talking points.

We're celebrating "Independence Day" all while living in a radical tyrannical left-wing police state...We lost most of our independence when certain events transpired on the morning of January 20, 1989 ..We lost most of our independence when politician’s lying became a virtue... when the principle of free expression was given up for profit and viewed as virtue… when attacking and degrading our fellow citizens' beliefs became a virtue… when taking possessions from somebody by force and give it somebody else for votes at the ballot box became a virtue!!And to make things even worse, the sadder thing still, is that people like these moronic, hypocritical, lying, backstabbing, progressives keep voting for it...We aren't even free to eat the foods that we want to, or to buy the light bulbs we prefer. We have a unelected person ( Michele Obama) telling us how and what our children should eat and mandating it. Only a fool believes we are still a free country.As if it weren’t bad enough with Obama, but now these Liberals, progressives, Commies lunatis are choosing between a Lying, Crook like Hillary or a Socialist like Bernie Sanders for president!

Anyone who believes we are as free as we should be before is either of a very low IQ or simply cannot grasp what these three words mean; Freedom, Liberty, Rights.We used to be able to order just about everything from a national catalog - even handguns, rifles and shotguns. We used to be able to eat whatever we wanted, talk about politicians in their presence. We used to be able to get a book at the library that taught you how to do whatever you chose to do. We used to be able to ride a motorcycle without a helmet or drive a car without seatbelts. Kids used to be able to sell cookies and lemonade from a sidewalk stand, bring a toy soldier or a toy gun to school.. We used to be able to get on a plane without taking off my shores or being strip searched. We used to be able to drive anywhere in the USA without being stopped by the border patrol. We used to be able to go to a movie theater and not have to worry about getting killed, or go to a ball game without being searched. Or to 75W bulbs at a hardware store. On this Independence Day we can’t smoke a cigarette in a public place, or at a bar without being stopped by the police, and being fined.. On this Independence Day, we can’t say what we think like Donald Trump did without being stripped of our business’s, or being vilified by the media and every one in sight, Or to speak on our OWN telephone in our OWN home without having the politicians take our OWN Basketball team away from us. Perpetuated by Democrats.

And the use of a Sophisticated High Tech Weapon used by the military to save the lives of our own troops is either not allowed or questionable! Then tell me, why are we spending so much money on these Weapons when we refuse to use them?